FILM REVIEWS

The Pale Blue Eye never comes within touching distance of the tales Edgar Allan Poe built his reputation upon, as the mystery gets more...

Call Jane suffers from an underdeveloped script which grinds its gears far too often, and from botched editing, most notably in the final...

The lead role fits Hamm very snuggly, while the script has a pleasing mix of suspense, humour and intrigue. But there is also something...

The miracle of this Irish variant on classic Greek tragedy is that it manages to spin a surprisingly layered, deeply moving tale out of...

Living succeeds because the filmmakers comprehend that sticking to the familiar is sometimes the best policy in adapting a great story,...

The film strings together the wonderful images the central couple shot of vulcanic activity, while Fire of Love also displays a genuine...

The positives outweigh the negatives in Strange World, which always keeps you entertained with easily relatable characters, fun action...

What’s supposed to be a darkly comedic look at mid-eighties America in Baumbach’s hands becomes a woefully unfunny, numbingly talkative,...

Barbarian offers nothing but tired clichés and unimaginative scares, while frustratingly doing next to nothing with the backstories and...

Despite a nearly two hour runtime there isn't a dull moment in the picture, which includes unbridled fantasy and an assortment of...

It is often said that the smallest creatures can achieves great things. Marcel The Shell and the movie that bears his name prove that....

From the beginning the picture is just slightly off: there are too many celebrity cameos, the actual plot takes an awful long time to get...

The second Avatar film will probably have an even lesser cultural footprint than the first, as James Cameron pummels you with bad...

Bardo indulges too much in its own surreal idiosyncrasies and has hardly any interest in satisfying anyone else but the director and his...

Corsage offers an intriguing, modern point of view on the life of Empress Sisi, amplified by the picture's curious use of periodical...

It's never clear what exactly drives the protagonists, both because the script doesn't address it properly and because the actors are...

You'd be hard-pressed to call Pinocchio a bad film, but it's a lot closer to a let-down than it is to a triumph, partly because Guillermo...

The true standout of the picture is the poetic mood that director of photography Ruben Impens manages to give the images. They transcend...

As with all good movies, even if the road towards the final act is a bit messy and unfocused at times, with a pitch-perfect final thirty...

The overblown, silly Indian hit never stops for believable character development, nor takes a breather from the relentless action and...